With the advent of new, low-cost hardware such as OpenNI compatible cameras (Kinect, Asus Xtion) and continued efforts in advanced open source 3D point cloud processing, 3D perception gains more and more importance in robotics, as well as other fields. This workshop attempts to motivate new developers and ideas to delve into
this subject, by offering a tutorial on point cloud processing using the emerging Point Cloud Library (PCL). Our goal is to provide an excellent reference material for students and researchers interested in this subject and take our guests through a complete application demonstration (given live) that combines subjects such as segmentation, surface reconstruction, occlusion detection, point cloud compression, efficient search and object recognition.